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Open Access:
A Library Service Provider’s Perspective
Jess Wallis, MLS | STEM Product Manager
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Open Access: A Library Service Providers Perspective Jess Wallis, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Open Access: A Library Service Providers Perspective Jess Wallis, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Open Access: A Library Service Providers Perspective Jess Wallis, MLS | STEM Product Manager 1 | www.ebsco.com EBSCO brings high-quality Who are we? research databases to academic, school/public, corporate, medical, and government
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Why EBSCO cares about Open Access
We want the best resources Publishing industry and libraries are currently changing in response to OA trends How can we help libraries and publishers deal with what’s coming?
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State of OA at EBSCO now
We have convened a task force to look at future of OA There is high- quality, peer- reviewed scholarly OA content in databases
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OA LEARNING Top 4 ways librarians learn about OA trends: Colleagues, scholarly articles, conferences, listservs OA EDUCATION About a third are responsible for OA education. 30% do not feel very comfortable with teaching colleagues or students about OA resources
SUBSCRIPTION FACTORS # of Gold OA resources in database the least important factor when subscribing Cost is most important, followed by # of peer-reviewed journals regardless of OA status.
WHO 70 Library Directors 80 Individual Contributors or Middle Managers
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Many countries in EU and South America now have partial or full OA mandates, either already in place or to be realized in the near future. More funders also mandate OA publishing for funded papers
More OA mandated
With more OA mandates, more papers are being published in an open format, either pre-print repository or journal.
More OA published
Students, faculty, other researchers, librarians just want content they can find.
Desire for discoverability
Starting with pre-print servers in STEM disciplines, the field has grown to law and even humanities.
Pre-print servers on the rise
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OA Uncertainty
Librarian
- How can we find it all?
- What’s good?
- What’s predatory?
- Article Processing Charges
- Where’s the best place to
publish?
Publisher
- How will this affect our
revenue?
- What is the impact on the foll-
access journal? New model?
- Who is paying for publication?
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Open Questions
Why is SciHub model so popular? How can EBSCO bring same experience of SciHub to researchers? What are they now bringing to the game and what are we doing that’s now not the best for users anymore? How can we use metrics to prove value of OA?
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PRODUCTS
New products that fill need for discoverability, convenience
ADVOCACY
Making sure the market knows the value of OA, and how we support it
RESEARCH
What’s really important to librarians and researchers?
SERVICES
Widgets or apps that enhance accessibility and usage of OA
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“Not only does EBSCO support DOAJ with a generous financial donation every year, their EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost platforms generate a lot more referrals to DOAJ than any other online platform. EBSCO’s strong support of both open access and
- pen source make them unique among library vendors
worldwide.”
- DOAJ, 2017
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Thank You
Jess Wallis | STEM Product Manager 978 356 6500 ext. 3655 jwallis@ebsco.com